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Harvesting too late?

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Is there a time that you must harvest your buds to maximize potency or can you leave them to grow as long as necessary without worry? I ask because I have a second harvest coming thru and I want to let the buds grow as long as I can .
 
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The best way to know if your buds are at peak is a bit debatable... it all comes down to trichromes... use a magnifying tool to see their color... if your going for an upbeat head high then 90 to 95% of the trichromes will have a milky color and the rest should have an amber color... if your looking for that couch lock feeling then harvest when 50% trichromes are milky and about 50% amber... the more amber the trichromes the more your plant is degrading in quality.
 
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KneeDeep34 said:
The best way to know if your buds are at peak is a bit debatable... it all comes down to trichromes... use a magnifying tool to see their color... if your going for an upbeat head high then 90 to 95% of the trichromes will have a milky color and the rest should have an amber color... if your looking for that couch lock feeling then harvest when 50% trichromes are milky and about 50% amber... the more amber the trichromes the more your plant is degrading in quality.
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Is it Time to harvest you think?
I can see a few amber trichomes but they mostly look clear to me. What do you think? Time to harvest? Another week? 2 weeks? I was thinking a week but I’m not confident in that so any advice would be awesome!
 
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dont Mull it>Pull it
 
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Is it Time to harvest you think?
I can see a few amber trichomes but they mostly look clear to me. What do you think? Time to harvest? Another week? 2 weeks? I was thinking a week but I’m not confident in that so any advice would be awesome!View attachment 906028View attachment 906029View attachment 906030View attachment 906031View attachment 906032
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Mostly cloudy and amber there. Can you take a plant pi and a good flower pic?
 
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That is a common debate and my answer is it depends on the strain and type. Sativa plants tend to take longer to flower and grow slightly during flowering, while Indica plants tend to grow denser buds that stay shorter. I prefer to let plants flower until they are just about dying... they look like trees in fall with larger fan leaves yellowing and falling. It's my opinion and experience that you get the majority of the heft and flavor dring the final days of the plant... usually a week or two after the "optimum Trichome" method for determining "doneness". Indica plants mature faster and don't flower as long, so I don't usually let them grow as long as the Sativas as they will start to grow funny and start foxtailing, which is an abnormal type of flowering.
Anyhow, that's my opinion!
 
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That is a common debate and my answer is it depends on the strain and type. Sativa plants tend to take longer to flower and grow slightly during flowering, while Indica plants tend to grow denser buds that stay shorter. I prefer to let plants flower until they are just about dying... they look like trees in fall with larger fan leaves yellowing and falling. It's my opinion and experience that you get the majority of the heft and flavor dring the final days of the plant... usually a week or two after the "optimum Trichome" method for determining "doneness". Indica plants mature faster and don't flower as long, so I don't usually let them grow as long as the Sativas as they will start to grow funny and start foxtailing, which is an abnormal type of flowering.
Anyhow, that's my opinion!
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My recently harvested herijuana jack foxtailed like that so we harvested her.

Leaves were already removed during harvest. Look at the top of the center bud.

 
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MIMedGrower said:
My recently harvested herijuana jack foxtailed like that so we harvested her.

Leaves were already removed during harvest. Look at the top of the center bud.

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The little nubb on top of the 2nd plant from the left is usually one of the major signs that I use for telling doneness. Once I see that forming, or the single bladed leaves seen on the next plant to the right, I know the plant is finished. Any additional growth is usually fairly sparse and mis-shappen.
 
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The little nubb on top of the 2nd plant from the left is usually one of the major signs that I use for telling doneness. Once I see that forming, or the single bladed leaves seen on the next plant to the right, I know the plant is finished. Any additional growth is usually fairly sparse and mis-shappen.
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Yup. And when we looked through the scope she was all cloudy with a little amber. Perfect.
 
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@Jimster @MIMedGrower so that’s what foxtailing is!!! I had one plant do that gnarly and I thought it was like starting another flower cycle so I just let it go and ended up with nothing but larf. Good to know that’s a sign of it being done. Also what is a Pi shot? I’ll take the pics a little later when it warms up but it’s fucking freezing out here in Southern California right now.
 
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Mostly cloudy and amber there. Can you take a plant pi and a good flower pic?
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this is my little bud stick. We fought off death all season and she managed to pull through. Granted not nearly what I was anticipating when I popped her bean but Small wins for now.
 
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this is my little bud stick. We fought off death all season and she managed to pull through. Granted not nearly what I was anticipating when I popped her bean but Small wins for now.
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She is real leafy so hard to see but looks like plenty of thick white pitils left. They will die back as the buds expand more.
 
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She is real leafy so hard to see but looks like plenty of thick white pitils left. They will die back as the buds expand more.
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Yeah she’s super leafy. Idk if it’s genetics or if I overfed nitrogen or what but she’s got leaves galore. She just started to fill out a little bit they were real wispy buds for a while and now they’re all starting to fill out pretty well. She is taking forever to flower though. She’s at the very least 6-7 weeks in. I took my monster crop clone from her on 10/1 so that was 4 weeks ago and she was probably 3 weeks or so in to flower when I did that.
 
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Yeah she’s super leafy. Idk if it’s genetics or if I overfed nitrogen or what but she’s got leaves galore. She just started to fill out a little bit they were real wispy buds for a while and now they’re all starting to fill out pretty well. She is taking forever to flower though. She’s at the very least 6-7 weeks in. I took my monster crop clone from her on 10/1 so that was 4 weeks ago and she was probably 3 weeks or so in to flower when I did that.
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I never grew outside so im not sure what to expect but indoors from flip most plants need 10 weeks or more to be truly done. I run sativa leaning hybrids 12 weeks often.
 
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I never grew outside so im not sure what to expect but indoors from flip most plants need 10 weeks or more to be truly done. I run sativa leaning hybrids 12 weeks often.
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Oh wow. So she’s got some time left. Well that’s fine I’ll just let her do her thing. My goal for outdoor is to grow a massive monster. So I’m trying to get some outdoor growing chops for next season. The plan is to start a girl inside around March, get her nice and healthy and then throw her outside at the very beginning of June. I used to live in a town that had a perfect climate for growing so I didn’t need to dial anything. Just water and some feeding here and there and my plants were good. Now I live in a shit town with a desert climate and awful water but I didn’t realize any of that until I started growing so I’m learning how to grow in this new environment. Granted I’ve never been super knowledgeable mainly because I didn’t have to be because it was so simple and I was just growing for fun but now I’ve got to pay attention to so much because of where I live. Plus I’m over the growing just to grow phase and I have a goal for what I want to produce. Now I want to grow some bragworthy buds and really dial in my skills both ID and OD.
lol, shit, I’m rambling.
 
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